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Innovations linkages to Strategy is vitally important

Paul Hobcraft

This includes White Papers and Series papers in the “ Insights and Thinking ” resource on this site as well. If you are in a highly dynamic, changing market it might look like 10:30:60. Keeping a very active portfolio in where to place funds and measure their impact is critical.

Strategy 313
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Shifting our thinking within the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

There was a number of sessions held at Davos, relating to this 4IR but more importantly, a release of a number of reports or white papers on the growing impact of this revolution. So much of our known world will become disrupted, it will challenge society, it will bring about new behavior.

Industry 238
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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

So I hope I can help fill those gaps and explore the what, why and how of having a dynamic functioning design and structured process to meet today’s demanding and highly energetic world of constant change. The importance of good governance and the proper functioning structure and the process can help absorb and translate these tensions.

Design 130
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Designing Problem-Solving Frameworks with Spiral Dynamics

Econic

The typical design process goes like this: Come up with a model to solve a problem Make it super simple (and pretty) Build a white paper around it Then, sell how to use it Rinse and repeat After speaking to the people left with frameworks hanging on large laminated posters as 21st-century innovation artwork, I’ve learned one important thing.

Design 52
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How to keep the history of learner-centered education from repeating itself

Christensen Institute

My latest white paper offers insights on this question. “ Christensen made sense of the innovator’s dilemma by developing the theory of disruptive innovation , grounded in a concept he called value networks. This’s not to say that K–12 schools never innovate or change.

How To 59
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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

The need for people and organisations to innovate has always been there but what’s much harder to comprehend, and therefore navigate, is the rapid pace of change we’re experiencing, on a scale we’ve never seen before. Promoting change of any kind was seen as a threat to the established order. A new era of work and technological change.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

We need to make some major changes with urgency and a depth of purpose. But first they need to get management of a company to change their existing strategy. It’s often a cattle prod to a stagnant company, or one ignoring disruption by new startups. Things will not stay the same at GE.”. billion of GE stock – about 1.5%